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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo- Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I have just arrived from Suba North. I have not had the opportunity to look at the Treaty. I wish that the Member, in moving or in seconding, would have elaborated a little more on the agency. This is because when you talk about the AMA, I do not know whether it deals with the issue of medicines from Africa like Mwarubaini or whether it is an issue of the medicines that are of African origin. If it is an issue of herbal medicines from Africa, then I would actually support. As a continent, we have despised our own products and the indigenous knowledge of beneficial properties of our own plants which have been very helpful. I am hoping that when the Member is responding, he will indicate that. The other issue of concern that I have noted when the Member was moving, which I hope he can respond to, is his indication that we need to make some amendments to our own laws. Even though I do not have the Treaty Making and Ratification Act here since I am the one who moved it, what I am sure of is that the Act talks about situations where we need to amend our laws. We need to point out which laws those are in the Memorandum. When you are bringing a treaty, it is also a law-making process. Article 2(5)(6) of the Constitution gives the Assembly the opportunity to make law through treaties by bringing them through Parliament. Once a treaty is passed, it becomes the law of Kenya. We had indicated that you cannot make a law outside the legislative process. The Executive cannot make law independently. It would be important that, as we are doing this treaty, if there are certain laws that we are amending that are going against certain provisions of the treaty, a reservation should be made on those Articles until such a time when we have amended our laws. Otherwise, we will be clashing with our Constitution or our domestic laws which is not what the Constitution intends. I am hoping the Member will bring clarity."
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